GeoffreyLeech.ppt

geoffrey leech,life experience,publications,research,born in 16 january 1936,in a jewish family in england,one of the most influential linguist in the contemporary linguistics,life experience,influenced by his father , a hebrew linguist,now: professor emeritus, english linguistics, lancaster university,1945，studied at university of pennsylvania (linguistics , mathematics , philosophy ),1947,a linguistics professor at the university of pennsylvania (influenced by professor zellin harris),1949,got the bachelors degree of art in the university of pennsylvania,1951,finished his masters thesis,1955,finished his doctoral dissertation transformation analysis,from 1951 to 1955, he, as a young harvard academic association members, to begin research,from 1955 taught at massachusetts institute of technology served as the director of the linguistics department and philosophy department served as the director of the cognitive science research center taught at california university, cambridge university, london university ,etc.,harkness fellowship (held at mit) (1964-5) fellow of the british academy (1987-) member of academia europaea (1989-) fellow, university college london (1989-) member, norske videnskaps-akademi (1993-) honorary professor, beijing foreign studies university (1994-) honorary fellow, lancaster university (2009-),fellowships,mick short and geoffrey leech,in may 2009, leech as one of the organizers hosting the thirtieth conference of icame (the international computer archive of modern and medieval english),icame,the worlds oldest association for research in corpus linguistics,from camet to icame,notice of the meeting should be given more that thirty days in advance,hold a meeting one year,icame 2001,aims,to promote english corpus linguistics & applications of english corpus linguistics,(b) to undertake or support the compilation,(c) to include in its remit corpus- based studies of other languages of english text corpora in electronic form,(d) to provide a forum for research and discussion on english corpus linguistics,career assistant lecturer, university college london,1962-4 harkness fellow, massachusetts institute of technology，1964-5 lecturer, university college london,1965-9 reader in english language, lancaster university 1969-74 professor of linguistics and modern english language, lancaster university，1974-1996 research professor in english linguistics, lancaster university，1996-2001 emeritus professor of english linguistics, lancaster university，from 2002,he has written, co-authored or co-edited 29 books & over a hundred articles and papers in the areas of： english grammar literary stylistics semantics computational linguistics corpus linguistics and pragmatic corpus-based natural language processing by computer .,publications,selected publications,research,a. corpus compilation and annotation,b. corpus-based study of english grammar,c. other research interests,a. corpus compilation and annotation,lancaster-oslo/bergen (lob) corpus,2. world-wide release of the corpus (bnc-world),3. the freiburg-lancaster-oslo/bergen (flob) and freiburg-brown (frown) corpora,4.speech-act annotation of a corpus of approximately 1,000 goal-oriented service dialogues,4.investigate recent changes in english grammar,b. corpus-based study of english grammar,1.participated in a seven-year project to produce a 1200-page corpus-based grammar of en